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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. Specifically, melanoma is the cause of 75% of skin cancer deaths, although it is the least common skin cancer. Better detection of melanoma could have a positive impact on millions of people.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chengdong Yao

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, and early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. Although dermoscopy combined with deep learning has advanced automated skin-lesion analysis, progress is hindered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pei-Yu Lin , Yidan Shen , Neville Mathew , Renjie Hu , Siyu Huang , Courtney M. Queen , Cameron E. West , Ana Ciurea , George Zouridakis

At present, cancer is one of the most important health issues in the world. Because early detection and appropriate treatment in cancer are very effective in the recovery and survival of patients, image processing as a diagnostic tool can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Reza Zare , Arash Pourkazemi

Skin cancer is a serious and potentially fatal disease caused by DNA damage. Early detection significantly increases survival rates, making accurate diagnosis crucial. In this groundbreaking study, we present a hybrid framework based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Maksuda Akter , Rabea Khatun , Md. Alamin Talukder , Md. Manowarul Islam , Md. Ashraf Uddin

Cancer is one of the leading health challenges for women, specifically breast and ovarian cancer. Early detection can help improve the survival rate through timely intervention and treatment. Traditional methods of detecting cancer involve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Richa Rawat , Faisal Ahmed

Malignant melanoma has one of the most rapidly increasing incidences in the world and has a considerable mortality rate. Early diagnosis is particularly important since melanoma can be cured with prompt excision. Dermoscopy images play an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng

In this paper, a novel approach for automatic segmentation and classification of skin lesions is proposed. Initially, skin images are filtered to remove unwanted hairs and noise and then the segmentation process is carried out to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Sumithra R , Mahamad Suhil , D. S. Guru

Skin cancer can be life-threatening if not diagnosed early, a prevalent yet preventable disease. Globally, skin cancer is perceived among the finest prevailing cancers and millions of people are diagnosed each year. For the allotment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Mohammad Tahmid Noor , B. M. Shahria Alam , Tasmiah Rahman Orpa , Shaila Afroz Anika , Mahjabin Tasnim Samiha , Fahad Ahammed

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

Accurate and scalable cancer diagnosis remains a critical challenge in modern pathology, particularly for malignancies such as breast, prostate, bone, and cervical, which exhibit complex histological variability. In this study, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Faisal Ahmed

Skin diseases affect millions of people worldwide, across all ethnicities. Increasing diagnosis accessibility requires fair and accurate segmentation and classification of dermatology images. However, the scarcity of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Héctor Carrión , Narges Norouzi

The semantic segmentation of skin lesions is an important and common initial task in the computer aided diagnosis of dermoscopic images. Although deep learning-based approaches have considerably improved the segmentation accuracy, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh , Mark S. Drew

Skin lesion segmentation from dermoscopy images is of great significance in the quantitative analysis of skin cancers, which is yet challenging even for dermatologists due to the inherent issues, i.e., considerable size, shape and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jiacheng Wang , Fei Chen , Yuxi Ma , Liansheng Wang , Zhaodong Fei , Jianwei Shuai , Xiangdong Tang , Qichao Zhou , Jing Qin

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated human-level performance in the classification of melanoma and other skin lesions, but evident performance disparities between differing skin tones should be addressed before widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Automatic deep learning segmentation models has been shown to improve both the segmentation efficiency and the accuracy. However, training a robust segmentation model requires considerably large labeled training samples, which may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Yingao Liu , Fei Yang , Yidong Yang

We introduce PathGAN, a deep neural network for visual scanpath prediction trained on adversarial examples. A visual scanpath is defined as the sequence of fixation points over an image defined by a human observer with its gaze. PathGAN is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Marc Assens , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. Automated skin cancer detection would significantly improve early detection rates and prevent deaths. To help with this aim, a number of datasets have been released which can be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Michael Luke Battle , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Andrew Stephen McGough

Effective recognition of acute and difficult-to-heal wounds is a necessary step in wound diagnosis. An efficient classification model can help wound specialists classify wound types with less financial and time costs and also help in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ramin Mousa , Hadis Taherinia , Khabiba Abdiyeva , Amir Ali Bengari , Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar

Early detection of melanoma has grown to be essential because it significantly improves survival rates, but automated analysis of skin lesions still remains challenging. ABCDE, which stands for Asymmetry, Border irregularity, Color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Harsha Kotla , Arun Kumar Rajasekaran , Hannah Rana

Accurate skin cancer diagnosis is vital for early treatment and improved patient outcomes. Deep learning (DL) models have shown promise in automating skin cancer classification, yet challenges remain due to data scarcity and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hamzeh Asgharnezhad , Pegah Tabarisaadi , Abbas Khosravi , Roohallah Alizadehsani , U. Rajendra Acharya